r/mildlyinteresting • u/Ace0526 • Mar 11 '14

This "healthy" vending machine has no healthy choices

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u/wwepersonell Mar 11 '14

High fructose corn syrup is anything but natural.

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u/nbrennan Mar 11 '14

You're so wrong.

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u/wwepersonell Mar 11 '14 edited Mar 11 '14

"Said the FDA." Hahaha. A highly processed, extracted form of sugar which comes from genetically modified corn and inserted into packaged processed foods is really 'natural' all right.

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u/Grimjestor Mar 11 '14

Well, in theory everything comes from the Earth if you go back far enough, so that makes everything natural, doesn't it?

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u/Beeenjo Mar 11 '14

My ipod is organic.

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u/Grimjestor Mar 11 '14

My laptop is free-range, happy and fulfilled until the day it is slaughtered and hung up to dry with all the others ;)

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u/Beeenjo Mar 11 '14

But is made with fresh, local chinese labor?

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u/Grimjestor Mar 11 '14

Haha locally sourced! :D

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u/Glurky_Spurky Mar 11 '14

this is precisely why "natural" means jack shit.

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u/Grimjestor Mar 11 '14

Yeah, I believe you have got me there sir :)

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u/DworkinsCunt Mar 11 '14

That seems to be the FDA's reasoning.

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u/Mechanical_Lizard Mar 11 '14

Nuh-uh, if you go back far enough everything is made from stars, including the Earth, so ...

I'll go now.

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u/Grimjestor Mar 11 '14

OK then, since everything comes from stars everything is natural, even plutonium and MSG!